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Independent Singapore
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Independent Singapore
Animation Nation collaborates with DreamWorks Channel for first-ever Short Film Award 2025
SINGAPORE: For the upcoming 2025 ANSEA Awards, Animation Nation, a festival of animation works organised by the Singapore Film Society, has announced a short film category, in collaboration with DreamWorks channel. Courtesy of press release 1 by giving them a forum to express their creativity through animation. This competition invites aspiring and professional filmmakers from ASEAN member states to submit two-minute original short films, along with a 100-word synopsis, exploring the theme of 'family.' Screening chances The winners will get to enjoy screening chances and three virtual mentorship sessions with a DreamWorks animator, among other amazing incentives. 'We are thrilled to collaborate with DreamWorks channel on this initiative that both fosters creativity and encourages cultural exchange among ASEAN nations,' said Michael Lim, Festival Director at Animation Nation. 'Aligning perfectly with our vision for the festival, this competition is a fantastic opportunity for animators to share their unique stories and perspectives with the world.' Interested parties can submit their entries from Apr 8 to Aug 15, and finalists will be announced between September and October 2025. A grand prize and two consolation awards will be awarded to the three winners. Chance to show off skills Animation Nation 2025 will include the winning films, and the grand prize winner will get the chance to perform live on the DreamWorks channel, giving them a chance to show off their skills to a global audience. For more information on submission guidelines and competition details, please visit The judging panel consists of four jurors: three from Animation Nation and one from DreamWorks Animation, including: • Brandon Oldenburg, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker, is a co-founder of Flight School Studio, Moonbot Studios, and Reel FX animation. He has received multiple Emmys and Gold Lions, including the Grand Prix. As an executive producer of Lost Ollie, he most recently received five out of ten Emmy nominations. • Rodney Uhler, Director of Acquisitions and Development of GKIDS, serves as the Programming Director for the Animation Is Film Festival, the annual Los Angeles animation film festival produced by GKIDS, an Academy Award® winning producer and distributor of acclaimed animation for both adult and family audiences. • H.J. Jinny Choo is an artist, educator, and curator specializing in animation and digital art. She holds a Ph.D. in Animation Theory and Content Producing from Chung-Ang University and, since 2009, has been teaching at Korea National University of Arts. With over 25 years of experience in animation curation, production, and teaching, she continues to shape animation as an artist and educator. • Annette Cryan, Creative Director, DreamWorks channel. That's a big job because she's responsible for the creative vision of ten different channels that people can watch in over 100 countries. Plus, these channels are in 13 different languages, which is amazing. With more than 20 years of experience in the media world, she's been the one in charge of how things look and feel for lots of well-known international brands, and she's also great at figuring out smart creative strategies for content. For more information, check out the website: and follow Animation Nation on Instagram (@animationnationsg) or Facebook.
Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Experience WWI like never before in this upcoming virtual exhibit
The National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, is getting a facelift. Since 2023, the Museum and Memorial 'has been carrying out a multi-year upgrade plan, the most expansive changes to the buildings and grounds since opening in 2006,' according to its landing page. The modifications, the announcement continued, 'will not only see upgrades in technology to tell new and interesting narratives from WWI, they will create a richer and more immersive visitor experience.' Opening over Memorial Day weekend, the museum's latest exhibit, 'Encounters,' will take viewers through the lives of 16 individuals that include: Allied and Central Power combat soldiers; British colonial Indian soldiers; women working in munitions factories; and dissenters arrested and tried for anti-war stances. Crafted from diaries, letters and photos, 'Encounters' includes state-of-the-art media displays that will feature 1.25 mm Pixel Pitch LED Display technology from Nanolumens — the first installation of its kind in a museum in the U.S. The museum aims for 'Encounters' to go beyond the simple showcasing of artifacts and historical data. Delving into more than troop movements and the number of rivets on a Sopwith Triplane, the installation aims to fully engage its visitors visually and audibly on 'a deeply emotional level, focusing on the human side of the war through the stories of individuals who lived it,' according to a museum press release. This isn't the museum's first foray into immersing cutting edge technology and meshing it with the past. In 2021, the National WWI Museum debuted its impressive virtual reality experience, 'War Remains,' which allowed visitors to take a trip through time to the battlefields of World War I. The initiative was designed for viewers to feel — as much as possible — the true trench experience. 'We wanted to simulate what it was like to lose your hearing to an explosion,' director Brandon Oldenburg told Military Times in 2021. 'Skywalker sound does an amazing job of putting ringing in your ears. You feel it, but you can't hear it. … I think it makes a lasting memory of what it was like even though it is not even coming close to the real thing. You can walk out alive [and] unscathed.' Now, the museum is once again leading the way when it comes to what museums of the present can and should be, with 'stations' boasting recreated virtual scenes from the front lines, the home front and military hospitals replete with interactive soundscape technology found in just one other space in the U.S. — the Las Vegas Sphere. According to the press release, 'the spatial audio used in this exhibit creates a 360-degree sound environment, making it feel as if the voices, sounds, and stories are unfolding around visitors in real time.' Despite more than a century separating museum-goers from the war's end, the lives of the ordinary man and woman caught up in this titanic clash will once again be seen — and felt — like never before. Renovations at the National WWI Museum and Memorial will continue through 2025. 'Encounters' opens Memorial Day weekend, 2025.
